This study of school management committees' (SMCs') and parent-teacher councils' (PTCs') development and their contributions describes successful interventions in community participation in school management in Pakistan.
This paper reviews the strengths and limitations of commonly employed linking methodologies, reviews the history of linking efforts involving the NAEP, and proposes a framework to consider linking utility and validity
Building on existing external school support literature, this brief offers a set of indicators for assessing the quality of support provided to low-performing schools, with respect to the No Child Left Behind Act.
This paper is a demonstration of how partitioning analysis can be used to help separate changes in reading and mathematical proficiency from changes in school populations over assessment years, using NAEP data.
AIR and Learning Point Associates, two of the nation’s leading not-for-profit education research firms, are joining forces in a merger that brings together the strengths of both organizations in order to enhance their ability to provide cutting-edge research, evaluation, and technical assistance. ...
The main purpose of this descriptive report—based exclusively on self-reported data collected from responses to a survey administered to state educational service agency (ESA) leaders in five Great Lakes states—is to provide an overview of the structure, capacity, and roles of ESAs in the region, within the context of the ...
The final report of a study of teacher preparation in early reading instruction describes pre-service teachers' perceptions about the content of their training programs and summarizes their scores on an assessment of their knowledge of the essential components of reading instruction, as defined in the Reading First legislation. ...
This brief describes how to calculate an undersupply of full-time equivalent teachers in core content areas based on state graduation requirements. Schools can adjust the variables in the formula to fit their own needs.
Determining the Cost of Providing All Children in New York an Adequate Education was a fifteen-month project to determine the cost of providing all New York public school students an “adequate” education.